I was just explaining why Isaac is recommending to change passwords. At least people were wandering about the email.
Leaking password hashes is considered a security breach. In this case the user database was unprotected and that was clearly a mistake. That fact that it always was unprotected doesn't make it right. On Thursday, March 8, 2012 7:32:49 PM UTC+1, Jann Horn wrote: > > Am Donnerstag, den 08.03.2012, 09:33 -0800 schrieb dvbportal: > > The password hashes and salts of the registry's CouchDB have been > > compromised. Per default the _users database of CouchDB is not secured. > :( > > WTF? "Have been compromised"? It always was that way, and as long as you > use strong passwords, it's no problem. You're suggesting it was some > kind of attack/mistake/..., but that's not the case. It was "Couch can't > do that? Well, then we can't." > > I really don't understand the buzz. > > -- Job Board: http://jobs.nodejs.org/ Posting guidelines: https://github.com/joyent/node/wiki/Mailing-List-Posting-Guidelines You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "nodejs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/nodejs?hl=en?hl=en
